An Ode to DNAinfo Headlines

The year’s 10 most memorable from the late, great news site.

DNAinfo, the news website that took an ultramicro approach to covering Chicago’s neighborhoods, abruptly shuttered Thursday, along with sister site Chicagoist. Over the past five years, DNAinfo’s reporters called out Chicago cops for purposely damaging their dashcams and broke city-shaking stories such as the Jackie Robinson West Little League cheating scandal.

But the site also elevated the everyday eccentricities of city life with hyperspecific, gleefully weird headlines, the most memorable of which read like dystopian haiku. Here, our 10 favorites from 2017, ranked.